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by jandrese 1483 days ago
The Info command kind of sucks to use though. It's way more complex than you would expect for a manual viewer. The help screen itself is 300 lines long and full of stuff like:

LFD (select-reference-this-line) Select reference or menu item appearing on this line

The help page talks a ton about xrefs and nodes and references and echo areas and tree searches without ever explaining what any of those things are. The h key as always does nothing.

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info was emacs trying to be a web-browser and it can go die in a fire.

I hated the days of "the man page is blank, see the GNU info documentation" - almost drove me to BSD.